December 2010
14 posts
Wikileaks, Cablegate: The book →
Well done Amazon. Guess this slipped in… Cablegate as a Kindle eBook.
ROTFL.
Anonymous, Wikileaks: an ongoing cyber war. →
The first of many to follow… Sigh.
Watchrotfl
Google Maps & Label Readability
41latitude:
Why Do Google Maps’s City Labels Seem Much More “Readable” Than Those of Its Competitors?
For months, I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.
To me, Google’s labels seem to “pop” much more than the other sites’ labels. Major cities also seem to stand out much more. [1] And whenever...
Myth #28: White space is wasted space
uxmyths:
White space or “negative space”, referring to the empty space between and around elements of a design or page layout, is often overlooked and neglected.
Although many may consider it a waste of valuable screen estate, white space is an essential element in web design and “is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background,” Jan Tschichold wrote in 1930.
Not only is...
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The basic question is not whether we think Julian Assange is a...”
– http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/12/after_secrets
So very true. Get used to it. Learn to live with it. Change!